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Nobody’s Man

CHAPTER XII
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The principles for which we stand never existed before, except academically.

No party has ever been able to preach them within the realm of practical politics, because no party has been comprehensive enough.

The Labour Party, as it was understood ten years ago, was a pitiful conglomeration of selfish atoms without the faintest idea of coordination.

It is for the souls of the people we stand, we Democrats, whether they belong to trades unions or not, whether they till the fields or sweat in the factories, whether they bend over a desk or go back and forth across the sea, whether they live in small houses or large, whether they belong to the respectable middle classes whom the after-the-war legislation did its best to break, or to the class of actual manual laborers." "I don't see what place a man like Miller has in your scheme of things," he observed, a little restlessly.
She shrugged her shoulders.
"Miller is a limpet," she said.

"He has posed as a man of brains for half a generation.


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